WDF World Cup Men Pairs 1987

From October 22 to 24, 1987, the sixth WDF World Cup was played at the Vally Sport Complex in the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Twenty-three countries participate in the competition. The New Zealand team brought no less than 200 supporters and before the competition started the “Maori” presented their famous "Haka" war dance as a warm-up.

With 23 countries making the trip to Denmark, a new record is set, the 21 women's teams are also a record. Italy, Spain and Switzerland make their debut at a WDF World Cup.

With four wins in the pairs event since 1977 the English duo John Lowe & Eric Bristow were odds on favourites again this year. They would not get the title easily though. In the first round they narrowly won 4-3 against Kendy Lo & Paul Shek of Hong Kong. The other British pair, Cliff Lazarenko & Bob Anderson went out first round 4-3 against Paul Lim & Kim-Seon Meng from Singapore.

The favourites for the title went on and defeated the Australian pair Horrie Seden & Kevin White in the semi-final 4-1. In the other semi-final the other Australian duo John Burnett & Russell Stewart also did not qualify for the final as they lost to the experienced Americans Rick Ney & Jerry Umberger.

In the final, the Americans took a 1-0 lead after a nice 131-finish by Rick Ney. But that was the only leg they'd get. The English top favourites won the next four legs on the trot and picked up their fifth WDF World Cup Pairs title. It’s the sixth in this event for England.

WDF World Cup Men Pairs

About WDF World Cup Men Pairs 1987

Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Pairs 1987

Gordon Allpress

Bob Anderson

Beat Basler

Andree Bomander

Eric Bristow-MBE

Oddbjorn Brydalseggen

John Burnett

Domnic Cachia

Magnus Caris

Kjeld Christensen

Malcolm Davies

Robert-Steve Davies

Johnny Deley

Louis Doherty

Noel Ebejer

Ellis Elsevijf

Alan Evans

Yuya Evans

Ray Farrell

Paul Frendo

Charles Ghiller

Avtar Gill

Miguel Plomer

Joe Gorski

Bernd Hebecker

Kexi Heinaharju

Holger Hentrup

Svein-Arne Hjelmeland

Helge Horst

Danny Inglis

Olivier Jean-Gilles

Brian Karlsen

Lars-Erik Karlsson

Masaki Kazusa

Ari Kokko

Michael Larsson

Cliff Lazarenko

Jean-Luc Leclercq

Paul Lim

Harith Lim

Kendy-M.W. Lo

Peter Locke

Ruben Lopez

Stefan Lord

John Lowe

Danny MacInnes

Robert MacKenzie

Franco Marcolin

Tony Martin-Diaz

Peter Masson

Charlie Maxwell

Timothy McCoy

Fred McMullan

Marcel Meskens

Ivan Michielin

Antonio Miguel-Rey

Neville Moss

Sayid Nasiruddin

Rick Ney

Trevor Nurse

Jan Nybakk

Chris Parsonson

Jan-Erik Paulsen

Tony Payne

Dick Pronk

Loic Querre

Alfonso Rech

Leighton Rees

Bob Renard

Juan Salpico

Kari Saukkonen

Rolf Schaub

Horrie Seden

Dieter Sentrup

Kim-Meng Seon

Paul Shek

Bob Sinnaeve